CSO Magazine

MAY 2, 2023

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) would soon be releasing a public request for information (RFI) to learn more about the automated tools employers use to surveil, monitor, evaluate, and manage workers, OSTP announced on Monday. To read this article in full, please click here

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In a new report this week, Microsoft warns that since May, the group known as Nobelium has targeted over 140 cloud service resellers and technology providers and has succeeded to compromise as many as 14. Nobelium, also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear, is considered the hacking arm of Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

These include scanning of Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD), Microsoft 365 and AWS environments for signs of attack, surveillance of network infrastructure both in the cloud and on-premises and supporting the retention of historical metadata to aid incident response investigations based on indicators of compromise for specific attack variants.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 7, 2023

The UN Cybercrime Treaty , to the extent it gets adopted, is expected to define global norms for lawful surveillance and legal processes available to investigate and prosecute cybercriminals," reports The Register in a special report. To say the cybersecurity community is skeptical would be an understatement.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

And lastly, for anyone who had been following Apple’s controversial proposal to install tech on phones that would scan for child abuse imagery, 14 of the world’s leading security experts wrote an analysis saying that client-side scanning (CSS) “neither guarantees efficacious crime prevention nor prevents surveillance”. VPNs, TTFN?

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Jeff Moss, ICANN CSO and founder of DEF CON/Black Hat, gave the keynote speech at SecTor 2021 in Toronto, Ontario. In the Coming of Age era, 2005-2019, provided "free" long distance and "free" internet access, we're always online, but this gives rise to surveillance capitalism. He added that hackers and researchers want knowledge.

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